• x00z@lemmy.world
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    42 minutes ago

    Source Code Pro, which I have been using for ages. I guess most people end up wanting what they are used to.

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    most of them just look the same to me. Also I can’t be arsed to do so many comparisons. I

    need a designer to make a proper decision tree where at each first you chose between wildly different families and at every step someone who knows font design highlights what the main differences are.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    I use “mono-9” in all my terminals, including for emacs. On my Debian trixie system, that maps to DejaVu Sans Mono in the fonts-dejavu-mono package.

    $ cat ~/.config/foot/foot.ini
    [main]
    font=mono-9
    $ fc-match mono-9
    DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
    $ fc-list|grep DejaVuSansMono.ttf
    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
    $ dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
    fonts-dejavu-mono: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
    $
    

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

    The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the Unicode Universal Character Set. The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif), two fonts released by Bitstream under a free license that allowed derivative works based upon them; the Vera and Charter families were limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, and Bitstream’s licensing terms allowed the fonts to be expanded upon without explicit authorization.

    The full project incorporates the Bitstream Vera license, an extended MIT License, which restricts naming of modified distributions and prohibits individual sale of the typefaces, although they may be embedded within a larger commercial software package (terms also found in the later Open Font License); to the extent that the DejaVu fonts’ changes can be separated from the original Bitstream Vera and Charter fonts, these changes have been deeded to the public domain.[1]